Unemployment rate is a key economic indicator and can help provide a sense of whether the economy is healthy or not. It measures the number of people who are without a job and who are actively seeking employment. It is calculated as a percentage of the labor force. The unemployment rate is determined at the national and regional levels through labour-force surveys conducted by government agencies. The data is also collected by international organizations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund.
Typically, the unemployment rate is calculated only for those individuals who are available to work and who have searched for a job within the last four weeks. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), an agency under the Department of Labor, produces a more comprehensive measure of unemployment called U-6, which includes all those who are technically unemployed as well as those who are working part-time for economic reasons but who would prefer full-time jobs and those who have given up looking for work.
A high unemployment rate can be a sign that the economy is struggling and may require policy action. It can also cause suffering for individuals and their families, as it reduces the income they receive and may prevent them from securing other sources of income. Unemployment can also impact on a person’s quality of life as it can affect their health, as well as their social connections and mental wellbeing.
Tech startups are young entrepreneurial ventures that bring innovative technology-based products to the market. They typically have a disruptive approach to business and a high level of risk. They strive to solve problems no one else dares and challenge the conventional industry standards through cutting-edge technologies and unique design aesthetics. These pioneers of the digital age leave an indelible mark on business by developing revolutionary software or reimagining solutions to existing problems. Their journey from humble garages or co-working spaces to elusive unicorns takes enormous efforts, extraordinary decisions, challenges, and vast investments.
When starting a tech startup, it is important to have a clear vision and a strong business plan. A well-thought-out strategy helps secure early investment and accelerates the growth of your business. It also ensures that you are focusing on the right audience and solving their problems with your solutions. Thorough research on your target audience, competitors, and upcoming trends in the tech industry is essential to your success.
Choosing the best monetization model for your business is another crucial aspect of your planning. It depends on the nature of your product, such as enterprise software or consumer apps. You can consider freemium or SaaS models to achieve your revenue generation goals. Once your tech startup is launched, it is vital to monitor its progress through key performance indicators and user feedback. This allows you to continuously improve your products and services and stay ahead of the competition.
When a conflict erupts, many observers quickly raise the prospect of a diplomatic solution. Yet peace talks rarely work, and the failure of a recent attempt to bring about a political settlement in Syria underscores the challenges that lie ahead.
A key reason why these negotiations are unlikely to succeed is that the participants have different interests and motivations. For Israel, the outcome of these discussions is likely to be a deal that leaves its claim to Jerusalem and much of the West Bank intact, while Palestinians are seeking a deal that will redress historical injustices in their favor.
Moreover, the way that current peace talks are facilitated is not helping to foster an environment conducive to successful outcomes. Too often, foreign ministers approach a conflict as a technical problem to be solved: add a concession here and subtract a demand there to see whether the numbers come up in their favour. This arithmetic approach is not enough in a conflict defined by trauma, identity, loss and justice.
Another challenge is that the international community too often neglects ‘track 2’ peacebuilding efforts at the local or sub-national level, where women are already brokering peace and shoring up resilience. This is to the detriment of peacemaking as a whole. Finally, mediators must aggressively test negotiating partners’ motives in order to winnow out spoilers who are willing to do anything to destroy the peace process. Spoilers can range from intransigence and obstructionism to attacks on civilians or noncombatants (which are a form of terrorism). Spoilers can also include factions within a political grouping that do not accept the negotiated terms of an agreement.
A state of emergency is a declaration that a government has taken due to a crisis. This allows them to act quickly to prevent loss of life, and typically gives them many powers they wouldn’t normally have (such as limiting travel).
It is often invoked during natural disasters, such as hurricanes or wildfires. It is also used in cases of a major disease outbreak, as well as during riots or political unrest. The power to declare a state of emergency is often delegated to the governor, but it can be granted to other government officials as well. The exact details of how a state of emergency is declared vary across countries.
The state of emergency is a law, and therefore can be changed at any time by the executive branch of government. It can apply to the whole country, a specific region, or just a particular sector of the population. The president is allowed to enact regulations during this period, which can include suspending civil rights. These restrictions must be “reasonably justifiable” and are limited in duration to deal with the current situation.
The state of emergency is a powerful tool for dealing with emergencies, but it can be misused to suppress political opposition or to ignore human rights concerns. The Weimar Constitution, for example, allowed states of emergency under Article 48, which was often invoked during the 14-year life of that republic. The state of emergency may also be used to bypass normal procedures for delivering assistance, such as bringing in contractors to help rebuild infrastructure without the usual requests and approvals required under regular conditions.
A daily update is a quick, efficient, and low-impact way for teammates to stay on top of their work. The meeting allows teams to ask and answer a few simple questions that help everyone stay aligned. Geekbot makes running daily updates asynchronous and customizable to your team’s needs. For example, you can choose to send the questions to teammates at a time that’s convenient for them in their local timezone (rather than at an overly early or late time) and you can decide where you want the daily update answers to be sent to.
In addition, you can select which channels the daily update questions and answers will be broadcast to. Many teams choose to create a new, dedicated channel for daily updates (e.g., #daily-update) but you can also use an existing one. Geekbot also lets you set up optional reminder notifications that alert teammates to complete the daily update questions within a certain time frame.
To get started, open the Geekbot app and navigate to and then click the Add your custom commands or scenes tab. Click the + button to create a new scene and then select Daily updates from the list of prefilled templates.
After configuring your scene, you can test daily updates by invoking your Action and enabling the daily update subscription flow with Google Assistant on an Android or iOS device. Make sure to keep the conversation short after your update intent is triggered; most daily updates should only take a single response and then close without requiring further user input. If users are using their device as an alarm clock, you may also want to enable a daily wake-up notification for your Action.
The crypto market is the economic activity of buying and selling cryptocurrencies, with prices determined by supply and demand. Just like stock markets, commodities, and foreign exchange, the crypto market is a global network of buyers and sellers. This includes individual investors, financial institutions, hedge funds, currency traders, and national banks.
As a new and emerging asset, the crypto market is incredibly volatile. It can be hard for new investors to keep up with sudden price movements, and even experienced traders can struggle to understand why certain assets are rising or falling. This volatility can be profitable for high-powered Wall Street investors who know how to make quick trades and can predict where the market is headed, but it can be a minefield for novices.
One of the most important things to understand about the crypto market is that unlike traditional investments, cryptocurrencies are not backed by cash flows. They are instead a form of digital money that exists outside of the banking system and has the potential to disrupt the way we make payments. Because of this, the success of cryptocurrencies hasn’t yet been based on traditional investment analysis, and spectacular returns have created their own self-fulfilling prophecy: the higher they rise, the more interest and buying activity they attract, leading to even greater price increases.
Currently, the most popular cryptocurrencies are bitcoin and ether. Together, they account for about 73% of the total cryptocurrency market cap and more than half of trading volume. However, the crypto world is home to thousands of different currencies, and some are geared toward specific use cases. Investing in the right cryptos can help you diversify your portfolio and increase your chances of success.
Story development is the process of taking a small kernel of an idea and turning it into a fully fleshed out story. It’s a journey that every writer must take, and it takes time and practice to master.
One of the key challenges at this stage is finding a way to give your ideas story stakes — something that will make the protagonist have to choose between what’s best for themselves and what’s best for the story. These stakes can be obvious, like a life or death proposition, but they can also be more subtle, such as a character being asked to choose between a good and a bad thing. Once you find the right stakes for your story, you can start to create the progressive complications that will lead up to the climax.
It’s at this stage that writers often begin to get stuck, sometimes resulting in what is called “writer’s block.” There is no one-size-fits-all solution for beating writer’s block, but over time many writers learn to recognize the signs that they are starting to go off course. They might pick up a book on writing structure or look for ways to inspire themselves creatively. Some go for long walks in the woods or parks nearby while others research obsessively, visit art galleries, or make Pinterest boards.
After the first draft, it’s a matter of refining the story, tightening up the prose, and balancing macro edits (like plot structure) with micro edits (like grammatical clarity). It’s also when writers work out their characters’ secondary goals, motivations, and relationships, as well as their internal and external conflicts.
Governments and their policies are central to ensuring that essential services like education, health care and justice remain available to all citizens, while also regulating the economy and protecting the environment. Often, the development of government policy involves extensive research and consultation. Governments create policies to achieve particular goals or objectives, such as stimulating economic growth, reducing poverty, or maintaining law and order. These policies are implemented through various mechanisms, including laws, programs and funding initiatives.
A government’s choice of policy responses depends on the level at which a policy is developed and the resources it has at its disposal. For example, a country might choose to respond to an economic crisis with fiscal stimulus measures to boost spending or tax cuts to stimulate the economy, or monetary policy to control inflation or the exchange rate.
Developing effective policy requires a complex set of factors to align and guide the process, from agenda setting through evaluation. This includes the influence of political parties, considerations of national interests, and decisions about how to allocate resources in a limited timeframe. It also involves the identification and prioritization of issues that require action, as well as a clear understanding of what it means to ‘be a policy maker’.
In addition, today’s policy makers are collaborating with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to identify and craft solutions to the most pressing challenges. This can include interest groups, private sector organizations, academic researchers and diverse constituency groups. Strong evidence-informed policy platforms that are supported by knowledge translation can facilitate this collaboration, enabling multisectoral actions to be designed, implemented and evaluated.
A broad field of study that examines the interactions among nations, encompassing such subfields as international law and politics, economics, history, geography and philosophy. It is a major multidiscipline in the social sciences, with prominent schools of thought ranging from realism to liberalism.
The practice and profession of managing international relations, typically by representatives abroad (see ambassador). As the United States has interests in more than 190 countries, its diplomats and other personnel involved in foreign policy must deal with a wide range of issues.
In a country, supreme power over the territory it governs. This idea is the basis of the modern international system outlined by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 and embodied in the notion that nations–monarchs then, governments now–control what happens within their borders. See also sphere of influence, Responsibility to protect, Hegemon, Balance of power.
A group of nations or regions that share a common language, culture or religion. Historically, this has largely been a geographic term, but it is also used as an idea to describe a political bloc, such as the NATO-Warsaw Pact grouping of Central Europe or the BRICS intergovernmental organization that aims to promote economic co-operation in Africa.
The five largest emerging economies–Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa–plus Nigeria are a loosely-defined regional bloc that was formed in 1975. The group is dominated by Nigeria and has been moderately successful in promoting economic cooperation in the region and sending peacekeeping troops to other African countries beset by civil war.
Pasien gangguan jiwa akibat judi online makin banyak. Rumah Sakit mulai kebanjiran pasien dengan keluhan depresi akibat kalah judi online.
Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah (RSUD) Kabupaten Karawang menerima banyak pasien akibat judi online.
Humas Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah (RSUD) Kabupaten Karawang, Abdullah Lutfi mengatakan, dalam kurun dua bulan terakhir pihaknya sudah menangani beberapa pasien korban dari judi online. “Dari beberapa pasien yang datang dua bulan terakhir ini mengaku banyak masalah. Dan dua pasien di antaranya karena judi togel hongkong ditambah hutang dari pinjaman online,” ungkap Lutfi pada Sabtu (29/6/2024).
Menurut Lutfi, kasus depresi karena judi online ini tengah menjadi tren baru di masyarakat.
Oleh sebab itu, pihaknya saat ini membuka dan siap melayani segala pemeriksaan kejiwaan, khususnya karena kecanduan judi online di Karawang.
Sejauh ini pasien yang berobat di Poli Klinik Jiwa masih sedikit. Tapi, hasil anamnesis atau adalah proses pengumpulan informasi medis terperinci tentang riwayat kesehatan dan keluhan saat ini dari pasien oleh dokter atau tenaga medis lainnya itu mengarah pemiciunya karena judi online.
“Mulai dari pemeriksaan dan terapi, kami siap untuk melayani. Akan tetapi, untuk rawat inap kami belum ada. Paling tidak akan kami rujuk ke RSJ (rumah sakit jiwa) jika kondisi pasiennya sudah memberontak atau histeris,” jelasnya. Untuk jadwal pelayanannya sendiri, kata Lutfi, Poli Klinik Jiwa di RSUD Karawang buka hari Senin sampai Jumat, mulai dari Pukul 7.30 WIB hingga 12.00 WIB.
“Intinya kita selalu siap untuk melayani masyarakat, khususnya di masyarakat Kabupaten Karawang,” tandasnya.
Kepala Desa Gasak Uang Negara untuk Main Judi Online
Inilah sosok Suhendri, oknum kades nekat gasak uang negara Rp977 juta demi judi online.
Ia pun nekat memotong uang Bantuan Langsung Tunai (BLT).
Akibat kecanduan judi online membuat pria yang memiliki jabatan Kepala Desa ( Kades) ini menjadi lupa diri hingga serakah gasak uang negara. Oknum Kades bernama Suhendri ini kalap hingga ‘lupa daratan’ ketika melihat uang negara yang seharusnya merupakan uang dana desa, bukan miliknya pribadi.
Tanpa pikir panjang, oknum Kades itu pun nekat menyunat duit hak warga hingga Rp 977 Juta.
Dia merupakan kades yang bertugas di Kecamatan Songgom, Kabupaten Brebes, Jawa Tengah. Tak hanya itu, ternyata dia juga pernah tersandung kasus korupsi tahun 2019-2022 hingga duit Bantuan Langsung Tunai (BLT) untuk warga tak mampu pun turut dia sunat.
Selain dipakai judi online, oknum kades ini juga menggunakan duit warga ini untuk judi di luar negeri di Singapura.
Kini pun Suhendri harus meringkuk di penjara atas perbuatannya tersebut.
SOSOK Suhendri, Oknum Kades Nekat Gasak Uang Negara Rp977 Demi Judi Online, Uang BLT Disunat (Kompas.com) Tersangka dan barang bukti diserahkan Unit Tipikor Satreskrim Polres Brebes ke Kejaksaan Negeri (Kejari) Brebes setelah berkas dinyatakan P21, Kamis (27/06/2024).
Kepala Seksi Pidana Khusus (Kasi Pidsus) Kejari Brebes, Antonius mengatakan, tindak pidana korupsi yang dilakukan tersangka berasal dari pengelolaan keuangan desa dari tahun 2019-2022 lalu. Suhendri terbukti melakukan penyelewengan keuangan desa sejak pertama kali menjabat di tahun 2019.
“Berdasarkan audit inspektorat Brebes, penyelewengan uang yang didapat dari saluran bantuan modal dan kegiatan yang tidak dilaksanakan, termasuk bantuan keuangan (bankeu) APBD yang tidak dilaksanakan atau dikerjakan tersangka,” kata Antonius kepada wartawan di kantornya, Kamis (27/6/2024).
Antonius menyebut, tersangka telah merugikan keuangan negara sebesar Rp 977.527.401.
Dari hasil temuan, tersangka melakukan penyelewengan penyaluran bantuan penyertaan modal BUMDes sebesar Rp 34 juta, akan tetapi tidak disalurkan tersangka.
Kemudian, penyaluran bantuan langsung tunai (BLT) yang tidak disalurkan kepada kepada 333 KPM dengan nilai mencapai Rp 99.900.000.
Pengelolaan dana desa yang tidak dilaksanakan berupa pembuatan pagar keliling dan talud dengan anggaran Rp 210.746.679 namun yang direalisasikan hanya Rp 21.680.000. “Termasuk uang padat karya Rp 12 juta dan pelatihan pemberdayaan wanita Rp 10 juta sehingga total Rp 52 juta tidak direalisasikan tersangka, tapi justru dipakai untuk keperluan pribadi,” terang Antonius.
Untuk memperlancar aksinya selama menjabat kepala desa, tersangka sengaja merangkap jabatannya juga sebagai sekretaris maupun bendahara dalam pengelolaan keuangan desa.
Dari pengakuan tersangka, uang hasil korupsi digunakan untuk judi online (judol) berupa slot dan juga untuk judi di negeri Singapura. “Selain untuk judi online, uang dana desa juga digunakan tersangka untuk trading,” ungkap Antonius.
Pasal yang dikenakan yakni Pasal 2 ayat 1 Jo Pasal 18 UU RI Nomor 31 Tahun 1999, yang telah diubah dan ditambah dengan UU RI Nomor 20/ 2001, tentang Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Korupsi Jo pasal 64 ayat 1 KUHP.
